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The replacement Stade scrim players are making a difference; they've won every one of their own scrums since the two red cards.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

As someone who runs a small business and for some reason pays my taxes…. Today’s “red tape” cut to company paperwork makes no real difference to me or my ability/desire to expand. As someone who investigates small business high street tax evasion… great news for candy stores and scam dropshippers!

UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you get universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance. Court order not needed. You won't be told, can't appeal. Same won't apply to enablers of illicit financial flows. No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.

I believe the company involved was called black core, an Israeli company....not the Israeli government itself So, a private company not a state, is being protected over UK democracy Also seems holyrood learned of this via media, UK state did not inform them at all We need indy now

The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in Scottish elections! Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would '𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠' with another state 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝑺𝑹𝑨𝑬𝑳 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝑬𝑭𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓!

This is how you do it when you debate charlatans and racists like Farage.

What a wonderful diverse media it is when the far right son of the owner of Unherd, The Spectator and GB News is considered a vital guest for BBC’s Newsnight

BREAKING: the court has paused the Trump admin tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, where we are contesting the dumping of toxic East Wing debris & creating a Trump golf course We raced to court with partners Democracy Forward & Lowell & Assoc, & filed for an emergency hearing--today at 10am!

"What Trump is doing now is next level. He’s not just attacking Somali residents. Rather, he’s calling for Minnesotans to attack them as well. And of course, it’s all based on absolute lies." — @snipy.bsky.social

All thanks to the tireless work of @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social who were ignored for years, and in Carole’s case hounded through the courts for years. I’m glad the PM is at last speaking the truth; but the real heroes surely deserve a Pulitzer!

I try to avoid this language, but what a fucking piece of 💩

Tee hee 😹

“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.

the tech industry is about to invent books

Also, we shouldn't allow Swinford or other Times journalists to escape criticism here. They should be standing up for the right of all journalists to access senior politicians in the Tory party. But rather than challenge Badenoch's free press lie, they just nod along.

The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t https://goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-first-ever-slapp-by-our-own-government/

Why are rapists innocent until proven guilty, but victims are liars until proven otherwise?-

So now Tom Cotton shld publish Trumps cell number!

Al Jazeera did a lovely summary of the Manchester City cheating scandal.

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

🟥 Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our own problems and the freedom to choose a better path. 1/2

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

🚨 A federal judge just threatened AG Todd Blanche with civil contempt for withholding handwritten FBI interview notes from the Epstein files. Stop the coverup this Saturday morning. Demand Congress force the unredacted release now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl

Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.

He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.